High-resolution observations shed more light on a peculiar brown dwarf system
Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...
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This hot Jupiter probably formed close to its star
The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...
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Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
But now they have a plan. Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star is estimated to be 64 percent the mass of the sun.
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From gas giant to art gallery: NASA’s Juno mission captures the whimsical beauty of Jupiter’s atmosphere
NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped a stunning image of a cloud on Jupiter shaped like a dolphin, proving that even science has an ...
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'Roasting marshmallow' exoplanet is so hot, it rains metal. How did it form?
WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...
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Planet Launches High-Resolution Pelican-2 Satellite & 36 SuperDoves
Introducing Pelican-2: Planet’s next-generation, high-resolution satellite equipped with the NVIDIA Jetson platform. Pelican-2 and 36 SuperDoves hitched a lift to orbit aboard SpaceX’s ...